Waterbury evening Democrat., 1887-12-17
A CHILD OF THE SUN.
SOME FRESH DISCOVERIES MADE BY
 FRANK CUSHING.

FRANK CUSHING.
 At Work Among His old Friends, the
 Zuni Indians-Remains of an Ancient
 City in Arizona-Secret Societies of the
 Zunis.
 Frank Cushing, who achieved fame few years ago by his notable connection with the Zuni Indians, has been interviewed by a re- porter. Mr. Gushing is a working director of the Hemenway Southwestern archmo- logical expedition, conducted under the aus pices of the United States bureau of>ethnol- ogy, of the Smithsonian institution, of which Sylvester Baxter is the secretary and Pro- lessor Adolphus F. Baudelier is the Spanish historian The work now being done by the expedition is properly a continuation of Zuni ethnological researches originally begun by Mr. Gushing some six years ago.
 This Zuni country is in New Mexico, not far from the Arizona line, in desolate coun- try of volcanic production, where the houses, mostly three story, are built of stone, ter race shaped and plastered with mud. There are no doors or windows in the lower stories, the ascent being made on the outside by means of ladders which may be drawn up so as to cut off all communication. This peo- pie, the Zuni Indians of New Mexico and Arizona, are now mere handful of not many more than 600, MT. Gushing said, but in their keeping is wonderful history which per petuates an ancient cultus related to that of the Toltecs, the Aztecs and the Incas.
 By living among the tribe MT. Cushing has made g1 eat gain for ethnological learning. The motives that promoted the expedition were various On Mr. Cushing's part there E,.ct of o11 fha afv pf by strengthening the ties between the people and himself, and second, the good of the people, by aroussng them to a desire for edu- cation and advancement through what had been seen in the east, as tho Zunis-or num- Der of the chief men of Zuni-had made a trip, under MT. Cushing's guidance, to Wash ington and to the Atlantic, or "the ocean of sunrise," which was to them land of fable
 WATER FROM THE ATLANTIC.
 A senior priest advanced what was to MT. Cushing an important reason for undertak- ing the trip, namely: To bring back to Zuni sacred water from 'sthe ocean of sunrise' or ''the waters of the world of day."
 The primary reason for taking the "water that brings rain and the water of the sacred medicine altar" as the Zunis term it, from the Atlantic ocean was the position of the latter with reference to the sun. Nai-iu-tche, the senior priest of the Order of the Bow, promised MT. Cushing entrance into the Order of the Ka-ka es reward for the great service of conducting them to the ocean. Otherwise entrance could not have been ob- tained without marriage into the tribe. The Zunis say that their gods brought them to a dry and sterile country for home, but that their forefathers taught them the prayers and songs whereby that land might be blessed with rain. They therefore addressed their prayers to the spirits dwelling in the ocean, the home of all water, as the source from which their blessings came. They believe their prayers brought the clouds from the ocean, guided by the spirits of their ances- tors, and the clouds gave the rain. These prayers could not be efficacious, however, without the help of drop of ocean water to start them ariGht.
 A most wonderful and most recent discov- cry mentioned by MT. Gushing was the find ing of the remains of a large city that be longed to the Zunis, and which must have gone down in ruin and burial as much as eleven centuries ago. MT. Cushing's work men are still engaged in excavating and bringing more of this inferred city to light. The evidences apparent incline the scientist NII; Cushingl to the belief that the topog- raphy of the country round about this newly discovered city, which is fifteen miles east by southeast from Phoenix, on Salt river, in Arizona, was very materially changed by | terrible earthquakes at about that period of | time, and that the destruction of this ancient | Zuni city was one of tho results. Develop ments thus far made indicate that it was c | conlpactly built city, about two by three miles in area; that its streets were macadam ized, and that a plentiful number of aque ducts extended through the city, affordinG an abundance of irrigation.
 A ''CHILD OF THE SUN"
 'After four months in Zuni, early in 1880 I was counted one of the Children of the Sum-" said MT. Cushing. "I learned of the existence of thirteen orders or societies, some of which were actually esoteric, others of z less strict nature, but all most elaborately or ea,aizod and of definitely graded rank rela tive to one another. Their existence is fact of ethnologic importance.
 | 'Frnctionally, these orders are divisiblt into four classes: Those of War, of tn, Priesthood, Aof Medicine and of the Chase Of the first class (AiartiaD there is but ont society-the A-pi-thaln-shi-wa-ni,' or thu Priests of the Bow,' at once the most power full and the most perfectly organized of al native associations, in some respects resem bling the Masonic order, being strictly secre | or esoteric. It is possessed of twelve degrees l
 "Early learning this, strove for nearl. two years to gain membership in it, whicl would secure at once standing with the trib and entrance to all sacred meetings, as wei as eligibility to the head chieftaincies. succeeded, and the memory of my expert ences in this connection are to me the mos interesting chapter of my Zuni life.
 ''For the Zuni there is city of the Twin, and another for the dead. AS the living ma. wander through far countries, so may tn dead return to their birthland, or pass owe from one ocean to another. Possibly, at som remote period the ancestors of the Zunis hay believed in the transmigration of the soul Their belief today, however, relative to tn future life is spiritualistic. ."-San Francisc | Examiner.
 The Mustache Brush.
 The latest fashionable fad for the toile table of the gilded youth is the mustach brush, which is expected to have great rul during the gift season. The brush is abou the length of a lady's finger, its face covere with baby bristles, short and white. Tn 1oo ,, <>f 1ol xx-,f